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<\/a>FRIDAY: National Honey Show, Wax workshops, shopping and viewing the entries<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>SATURDAY: National Honey Show, more wax workshops, lectures, and collecting the cup!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>MONDAY: labelling up and boxing honey for a bulk order.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>THURSDAY: Evening spent with Harrow Beekeepers listening to Jamie Ellis’ excellent talks, on Small Hive Beetle and how he (Jamie, not the SHB) got involved with bees.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>SATURDAY morning: Visited British Entomological and Natural History Society show in London\u00a0to see some other insects. Helps us appreciate that, working with bees, at least the objects of our devotion don’t need a magnifying glass to be seen. Some of those beetles were\u00a0tiny!\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n SATURDAY evening: Harrow BKA AGM – sharing the National Honey Show cup with Judy, HBKA business and annual dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n SUNDAY: Morning visit to the apiary and the orchard, to check hives and put some fondant on where needed. Catch-up with HBKA after AGM<\/p><\/div>\n Totting it all up comes to about 30 hours in 10 days. <\/p>\n Coming soon to a calendar near us… pollen workshops and the first in a series of training sessions in preparation for Bee Husbandry exams, plus – maybe – a little bit of beekeeping \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six years ago, when the Beekeeper was just a “potential” beekeeper finding out what was involved, several people told us beekeeping needn’t take a lot of time – an hour a week or so on average. So here’s a photo … Continue reading <\/a><\/a>